Standard Classification: API Security Top 10 - A Beginner's Guide to Mitigation
summary
OWASP API Security claims that APIs drive major breaches — IBM links 60% of cloud breaches to misconfigured APIs — and the Parler leak exposes 70 terabytes via zero auth, sequential IDs and no rate limiting. Concrete mitigations include validating inputs and JWTS, mapping internal IDs to unguessable UUIDs, short‑lived tokens, rate limiting, mutual TLS for admin ops, GitHub secret scanning, and an api firewall. Continuous automated negative testing, server‑side output filtering, and secure production logging are required and proven necessary.
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chapters (11)
- 0:00Intro
- 0:392. API Breaches are on the rise!
- 3:42Applications Architecture has changed!
- 5:15OWASP API Security Top 10
- 5:592. Parler (January 2021)
- 8:44Input Data Validation
- 12:23Output Data Validation
- 20:502 Avoiding BOLA
- 24:102. Secure Logging
- 28:01IN AN API WORLD, IT MEANS
- 28:51CALL TO ACTION!
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